VN earns 33.62 billion USD from exports in two months

Vietnam’s total export value was estimated at 33.62 billion USD by the end of February, a year-on-year increase of 22.9 percent, revealed the General Department of Customs (Photo: tapchitaichinh.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s total export value was estimated at 33.62
billion USD by the end of February, a year-on-year increase of 22.9 percent,
revealed the General Department of Customs.

Of this, 19.57 billion USD came from the six groups of commodities earning at
least 1 billion USD in export value, accounting for 58.2 percent of the total
export value.

The result was one more group than that in the first two months of 2017. The
new “billion dollar” goods item was seafood, which was the largest export
product of the agricultural sector.

In the first two months of this year, the export value of seafood reached 1.1
billion USD, up 20.4 percent over the same period last year. However, its
export value in February fell 37.3 percent month-on-month to 430 million USD.

Five others included telephone and its parts; computer, electronic products and
their parts; other machines, equipment, tools and components; footwear; and textile
and garment.

During the first two months of this year, the export value of telephone and its
parts reached 6.63 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 41.7 percent, the
largest export value among all.

Textiles and apparels gained a surge of 22.3 percent year-on-year in export
value to 4.3 billion USD. This was considered the highest growth rate in export
value of the textile and garment industry in recent years.

Computers, electronic products and their parts had an estimated export value of
4 billion USD, up 19.2 percent over the same period last year.

The export value was 2.27 billion USD for footwear products, up 11.9 percent,
and 1.27 billion USD for wood and wooden products, up 20.1 percent compared to
the same period last year.-VNA